right under the Wortham oil field and may have been the result of oil
and brine being removed from the rock porosity and the evacuated rock
micro-pancaking.
The Wortham oil field was brought in l924,
following the Mexia boom which brought martial law to the two counties
for the second time - 1922- to curb the
the booming Wortham oil field of the 1920s has simmered down to a
dribble, Freestone has since found other production, and in 1938 is
credited with 75,142 barrels.
